Our Reg got our coats pants shirts & socks & caps & they needed them verry much 9 Oc I was at love feast in the African church t...

I worked in office as usual. Made a pair of mittens of buffalo hide. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1...

Drew Clothing, and issued same. nothing unusual transpires. SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, Thirty-Third Iowa Infantry,” Anna...

The battery was inspected in the forenoon, and began to drill for the first time since we crossed the river. Mrs. J. C. Johnson of Boston se...

Having but a limited supply of underclothing with me at this camp, I doffed my garments and turned washerman for the nonce, intending to sea...

Guard duty is the order of the day. Companies A and F taking turn about. We had a very heavy snow storm last night and today it is still sno...

Madison.  I had to pass through the regular scramble-game for my rations, and drew the bounty in the afternoon, went around town and bought ...

Columbia, Ky., April 30th, 1863. At the date of my last entry—the 26th inst.—I had seen no indication of a move. We retired that night at ...

The guard was relieved early, and at seven A.M. we fell into line with the regiment, marching across the town to Fort Totten, where we joine...

Owing to wet clothing and a chill I could not sleep. Before day I was watching the country. At sunrise we were alongside the Little Roanoke ...

The smallpox is frightful. There is not a day that at least twenty men are taken out dead. Cold is no name for the weather now. They have gi...

CAMP MILLINGTON, BALTIMORE. On account of the heat we were not taken out for drill to-day. We have cleaned up our quarters, for since gettin...

I and Jeff Burleson went out and got a good dinner and my clothes. Came back and found the Company in Camp. To-night I, Eslinger and Jessy J...

While I cannot sign the bills as rapidly as Nannie Giles can, today I finished up four packages of the denomination of fifty dollars. Mr. Te...

Our first morning in camp. We were rudely awakened and dragged from our bunks at six o’clock, very few being used to such early hours, excep...

We received our socks, pants, drawers and shoes. Did not get our guns. We encamped in tents, ate our supper just at dark. SOURCE: Lewis C....

Cloudy and cold, but wind southeast. The sullen sound of cannon heard this morning as usual down the river. I hear of no active operations...

Bright and warm. It is said there is a movement of the enemy menacing our works on the north side of the river. There was shelling down th...

Clear, and warm as summer almost. Another dispatch from Bragg: "AUGUSTA, November 28th, 1864.—On the 26th instant, the enemy starte...

Near Petersburg, Va.,           October 25, 1864. I have a bright fire this morning. There is a nice chimney to my tent, which makes it al...